The myths, suppressions, denials, and defaults of Italian colonialism / Angelo Del Boca -- Studies and research on Fascist colonialism, 1922-1935 : reflections on the state of the art / Nicola Labanca -- Italian anthropology and the Africans : the early colonial period / Barbara Sòrgoni -- The construction of racial hierarchies in colonial Eritrea : the liberal and early Fascist period (1897-1934) / Giulia Barrera -- Gifts, sex, and guns : nineteenth-century Italian explorers in Africa / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Incorporating the exotic : from futurist excess to postmodern impasse / Cinzia Sartini-Blum -- Alexandria revisited : colonialism and the Egyptian works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Mass-mediated fantasies of feminine conquest, 1930-1940 / Robin Pickering-Iazzi -- Orphans for the empire : colonial propaganda and children's literature during the Imperial era / Patrizia Palumbo -- Colonial autism : whitened heroes, auditory rhetoric, and national identity in interwar Italian cinema / Giorgio Bertellini -- Black shirts/Black skins : Fascist Italy's colonial anxieties and Lo squadrone bianco / Cecilia Boggio -- Empty spaces : decolonization in Italy / Karen Pinkus.
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Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it clear that the discussion of Italy's colonial past is essential to any understanding of the history and construction of the nation.